Signed... sealed.. and ... delivered

I've got it... I've got my contract in my grubby little paws :-)

Ah, so much shopping to do now that i have something that slightly resembles disposable income. But first the holiday.... I've sort of decided to take a week where I'm uncontactable by anyone. I'm going to Austria.

I've booked a week on the Mayrhofen resort http://www.mayrhofen.at/index.php?id=6&L=2 . I'm going to be staying at a nice hotel with the slopes just outside my front door, and some clean mountain air. Brad has kindly let me use his ski suit otherwise that would probably add another couple of hundred pounds to my trip (not fun). But now I want boots of my own... rentals always give me blisters and bruises.
The week that I'm there they're having some crazy European rock type festival called Snowbombing. Google it... it looks interesting. Bands I've never heard of making a noise on the slopes and drinking Jaegermeister (scuse spelling) at the top of the mountain. Sounds like a recipe for disaster, I can't wait. But till then at least the weather on my puddle of mud island is improving. I have seen the sun, so I know it still exists and all the tickets for the concerts are coming out now. I'm going to be broke by the end of this, but at least it'll have been fun.

Anyway, I'm off to buy some gloves for the slopes as I don't think my skinny little one's I have at the moment will suffice.

later

Still waiting....... and waiting... and waiting

So my boss has finally decided that after a year of working for him that I'm not a complete nut job and I don't have any completely weird habits... okay, so I'm not a morning person but he seems to be okay with that... so the short of it is that he's offered me a permanent job. I suppose me telling him that come beginning of March if he didn't make me permanent he'd be looking for a new person to fill my role made him more enthusiastic to do something. So there we go.... I have a permanent job... and I get heaps of holiday and he's paying me more than I was hoping for so I'm ecstatic about it.

This now means that I can escape to some deserted mountain range with 2 pieces of wood strapped to my feet and spend a week going up and down the mountain. And spend the evenings curled around a log fire drinking something that is cold and I probably can't pronounce.

So yes, I'm hoping to spend easter skiing in Austria. That's one of the nice things about living in Europe.... the rest of Europe is on your doorstep... I can go skiing for a weekend... :-)

Although I am still waiting for my contract to come through (still) I'm getting the little yellow pass instead of the blue one and I can now take holiday without wondering how I'm going to pay for it :-)

So things are looking up